RN - Registered Nurse

New Grad RN - Registered Nurse/Graduate Nurse (Now Accepting Spring 2024 Applications)

Shift: Varies

The nurses of University of Michigan Health-West are caring healers, trusted and respected professionals who touch every life we serve. With warmth and skill, they ensure the safety of patients. They comfort and educate families. They empower our care teams to deliver excellence. Through their training and dedication, nurses exemplify the best of University of Michigan Health-West. They uphold our promises to treat each patient as an individual and to make advanced healthcare excellence available to all.

Looking to learn more about starting your nursing career here at UMH-West? Apply to this position and you will be contacted by our Talent Acquisition Team to discuss opportunities. We have full-time, part-time and resource opportunities on a variety of units that are open to New Graduates. At the end of this application, you will be asked to provide your patient population/unit preferences to help us identify positions that best fit your career goals.

General Summary:

This position offers practical experiences and opportunities for the Graduate Nurse to transition from the structured clinical environment of nursing school to the comprehensive role of the registered nurse. Working collaboratively with a registered nurse preceptor the Graduate Nurse will develop a greater understanding of the professional component of the role of the registered nurse as the coordinator of patient care. He/she will develop skill and confidence in performing a multitude of technical procedures in the clinical setting and have the opportunity to demonstrate the application of critical thinking process and communication with the RN.

Requirements:

1. Graduate of an accredited nursing program

2. Employee must pass NCLEX exam within 10 weeks of hire

3. If the NCLEX exam is not passed, the Graduate Nurse will transition into a Nurse Aide position if employment is continued

4. Current BLS certification-Required

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Activity/Comfort – Makes an occupied and unoccupied bed, makes a bed with a patient in traction.
2. Activity/Comfort – Turns and positions a patient in bed, ambulates and dangles a patient.
3. Activity/Comfort – Transfers a patient using a chair, wheelchair and stretcher.
4. Activity/Comfort – Positions/transfers a patient with hip precautions, traction, or CPM machine.
5. Activity/Comfort – Transports a patient using wheelchair and stretcher.
6. Activity/Comfort – Performs passive and assists with active ranage of motion.
7. Hygiene – Gives a patient a complete, partial, shower or tub bath.
8. Hygiene – Shaves a patient, shampoos a patient, gives oral care, including denture care.
9. Hygiene – Performs perineal care and indwelling urinary catheter care.
10. Hygiene – Performs back and H.S. care.
11. Hygiene – Changes a non-sterile and sterile dressing.
12. Hygiene – Performs ileostomy/colostomy care.
13. Hygiene – Assists with postmortem care.
14. Hygiene – Performs clean and sterile oral, nasopharyngeal and tracheostomy suctioning.
15. Hygiene – Performs tracheostomy care.
16. Nutrition – Passes trays, snacks and water, feeds a patient, measures and records intake from dietary trays.
17. Nutrition – Inserts, irrigates, administers feeding through, and removes various feeding tubes as appropriate.
18. Elimination – Places and removes a bedpan, fracture pan and urinal, and assists patient with using a bedside commode.
19. Elimination – Empties, measures and records drainage from a urinary drainage bag, Jackson Pratt drain, Hemovac, and bile bag.
20. Elimination – Removes fecal impaction, inserts and removes a rectal tube, administers a cleansing and retention enema, and applies and removes fecal incontinence bag.
21. Elimination – Performs urinary catheterization.
22. Specimen Collection – Collects urine, sputum, and stool specimens, obtains wound cultures.
23. Specimen Collection – Uses a glucometer to test blood glucose levels, tests urine for sugar, acetone, blood or pH and strains for kidney stones.
24. Vital Signs/Measurement – Measures the following vital signs: oral and tympanic temperature, radial and apical pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and pain rating.
25. Vital Signs/Measurement – Measures a patient’s weight using a standing, chair, sling and bed scales.
26. Equipment – Operates the electronic blood pressure cuff, IV pump, feeding pump and pulse oximeter, sets up oxygen flow meter, provides oxygen therapy using nasal cannula and mask, assists patient with incentive spirometer.
27. Equipment – Sets up suction apparatus and disposes of suction canisters, uses a disposable ambu-bag.
28. Equipment – Applies and removes ice bags, moist or dry heat, ace bandages, arm slings, binders, supports, antiembolism stockings, Intermittent Compression Devices (ICD), soft limb (wrist and ankle) restraints, mitt restraints, jacket/vest restraints, and leather restraints.
29. Equipment – In Assisted Breathing Center (ABC) only: Demonstrates a basic knowledge of how the ventilators in MABC function.
30. Equipment – Stocks patients room as appropriate for the unit.
31. Infection Control – uses aseptic technique and adheres to standard precautions, cares for patients with special isolation precautions.
32. Infection Control – Passes clean linen and bags/disposes soiled linen.
33. Infection Control – Cleans equipment between patients use and cleans equipment prior to return to Central Sterile, replaces full sharps containers.
34. Data Collection – Collects the following data (as delegated by RN after RN's initial assessment): neuro/behavior, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, integumentary, neuromuscular, psycho-social, learning needs, and discharge needs.
35. Medication Administration – Administers medication per RN’s discretion with direct RN supervision via oral, enteral feeding tube, subcutaneous, intramuscular and transdermal routes.
36. Medication Administration – May perform IV fluid or IV medication administration with direct RN supervision.
37. Medication Administration - Initiates IV access after completion of IV module.
38. Documentation – Charts care given as directed by RN.
39. Communication – Uses the intercom, Vocera or unit pagers, pneumatic tube and telephone systems, answers patient call lights.
40. Communication – Reports observations to RN and keeps RN informed of care delivered, prepares/gives report to the oncoming shift.
41. Communication – Assists in the development of a care plan.
42. Miscellaneous – Actively participates in maintaining a clean, safe and efficient work environment.
43. Miscellaneous – Participates in and attends continuing education programs and meetings related to job description.
44. Miscellaneous – Maintains patient confidentiality.
45. Miscellaneous – Promotes good departmental and interdepartmental working relationships through courteous and professional communication and behavior.
46. Miscellaneous – Performs other tasks as delegated by RN appropriate to scope of practice.

Requisition #: req7710